Mark Sweney : The biggest winner, according to figures from Nielsen Online, has been Google-owned YouTube, which showed an 18% traffic surge in the two months since the writers' strike began in November, compared to September and October. A separate US report, The Pew Internet and American Life Project...
Some important news I missed last week : The UK's biggest social networking site announced partnerships with a string of broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4, Sky, ITN and CBS, in a move hailed as one of the most significant yet in marrying old and new media. Traditional broadcasters hope that...
A new interactive drama series, ‘Sofia’s Diary’ from Sony Pictures Television International is to air on Bebo.com this Autumn . ‘Sofia’s Diary’, is the second interactive drama series to be introduced by Bebo. It follows the success of the recently launched KateModern...
As if from the very pages of the Long Tail itself, comes this little snippet : On 25 May, 7.7m people in the UK tuned in to watch Doctor Who on BBC One. On the same day, 9.8m people in the UK visited a website owned by Google, of which 2.2m watched at least one video on YouTube. This time the Dr emerged...
In the same week that Facebook announced it is opening up content to search engines, the internet TV platform Joost has quietly released an API to allow developers to make widgets that will work within the Joost environment. One take on this is that development of social bookmarking and 'what's...
So the results of Wednesday's IPA debate, " is the digital revolution killing TV advertising? " are in, and although Les Binet won in terms of number of votes, Matt Dyke did swing the audience in his favour (more voted for the proposition after the debate than did at the beginning). I have...
Mindshare's Simon Andrews with some good analysis of Sky's decision to buy Amstrad : With over 700k broadband customers Sky can develop hardware that maximise the synergies between (Satellite) TV and the web - defining the sector before new players like Apple and PlayStation emerge as real competitors...
Where are the Joneses? is a " groundbreaking interactive on-line situation comedy ", conceived and developed by Imagination and sponsored by Ford. Over to David Bausola, who worked on the project : the project had to be built upon existing web(2.0) services so that we could take the project...
A study by Motorola found that 45% of European broadband users are already watching TV online, with the flexibility of internet TV being the main attraction. French internet users are watching watch the most online (59% doing so), with Italian and British viewers coming second and third respectively...
ITV have announced they're to start making their programmes available over the internet, both live and up to 30 days after broadcast. informitv has the background : Within a matter of months, the majority of programmes on the major channels in the United Kingdom are expected to be available legitimately...
